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Phylogenetic diversity and the functioning of ecosystems

Ecology Letters, 2012
Abstract Phylogenetic diversity ( PD ) describes the total amount of phylogenetic distance among species in a community. Although there has been substantial research on the factors that determine community PD , exploration of the ...
Diane S, Srivastava, Marc W, Cadotte, A Andrew M, MacDonald, Robin G, Marushia, Nicholas, Mirotchnick   +4 more
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Ecosystem functioning

2010
In the face of decreasing biodiversity and ongoing global changes, maintaining ecosystem functioning is seen both as a means to preserve biological diversity as well as for safeguarding human well-being by securing the services ecosystems provide. The concept today is prominent in many fields of ecology and conservation biology, such as biodiversity ...
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Obscuring Ecosystem Function with Application of the Ecosystem Services Concept

Conservation Biology, 2010
Abstract:  Conservationists commonly have framed ecological concerns in economic terms to garner political support for conservation and to increase public interest in preserving global biodiversity. Beginning in the early 1980s, conservation biologists adapted neoliberal economics to reframe ecosystem functions ...
Markus J, Peterson, Damon M, Hall, Andrea M, Feldpausch-Parker, Tarla Rai, Peterson   +3 more
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Biodiversity and Microbial Ecosystems Functioning

2014
All ecosystems are composed of multiple species performing numerous functions. This plurality identified as biodiversity has become a research topic of general importance for understanding how ecosystems function. The word “biodiversity” has subsequently received different interpretations we aim to describe.
Normand, Philippe, Duran, Robert, Le Roux, Xavier, Morris, Cindy E., Poggiale, Jean-Christophe   +4 more
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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 2014
Species diversity is a major determinant of ecosystem productivity, stability, invasibility, and nutrient dynamics. Hundreds of studies spanning terrestrial, aquatic, and marine ecosystems show that high-diversity mixtures are approximately twice as productive as monocultures of the same species and that this difference increases through time.
David Tilman, Forest Isbell, Jane M. Cowles   +2 more
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Defining Soil Quality For Ecosystems and Ecosystem Functioning

1993
A number of approaches to defining soil quality have attempted to derive a single set of values based on uncontaminated or ‘undamaged’ soils (e.g. Lexmond et al 1986, Moen et al 1986). An ecological approach should be based on the soil requirements of the given soil biota system and the use/management aims of the system.
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Ecosystem Function of Biodiversity: A Summary

1994
In light of past and projected global changes in land use and climate, there has been increasing concern about the loss of genetic diversity in fragmented populations, the loss of species diversity through habitat destruction, and the role of landscape diversity in regional processes.
Schulze, E., Mooney, H.
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Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

2019
Abstract This chapter examines the relationship between biodiversity (most often measured as species richness) and the functioning of ecosystems. Examined in detail are the effects of biodiversity on: ecosystem productivity, nutrient use and nutrient retention, community and ecosystem stability, and invasibility by exotic species.
Gary G. Mittelbach, Brian J. McGill
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Ecosystem services ecosystem function and the ecosystem approach

2014
This project focused on mapping the delivery of three ecosystems services each in one case study area in Scotland and then identify how the Scottish policies such as woodland expansion biodiversity, conservation and food production affect the land use.
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Species diversity, functional diversity, and ecosystem functioning

2002
Abstract Experiments assessing the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning initially aimed at establishing whether such relationships exist (e.g. Naeem et al. 1995; Tilman et al. 1996; Jonsson and Malmqvist 2000; Engelhardt and Ritchie 2001).
Hooper, D., Buchmann, N., Degrange, V., Díaz, S., Gessner, M., Grime, P., Hulot, F., Mermillod-Blondin, F., Van Peer, L., Roy, J., Symstad, A., Solan, M., Spehn, E.   +12 more
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